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New to AI?

Our AI 101 series explains what AI is, what it is good at, and what to watch out for — in plain language, no jargon.

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September 9, 2026

State of Ethyx

Closed beta, a working v1 on a single monolith, and why v2 is the company-and-scale step—not a rewrite of the product you can already use.

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September 9, 2026

Who owns the work you give an AI?

This week's OpenAI math-proof fight is a reminder that consumer AI apps usually keep your drafts under their terms—and that “we do not train on you” is often an opt-out plus trust.

September 1, 2026

AI 101 · Part 7

How tools make AI more useful

Almost every weakness this series covered has a patch — and the patch is not a smarter model. It is giving the guesser tools: a search to run, a page to read, a calculator to press.

August 31, 2026

AI 101 · Part 6

So many models — does it matter which one?

The model picker looks like it requires a PhD. It doesn't. Model names decode like car trims, one rule covers most decisions — match the tool to the job — and for everyday use, the default pick is genuinely fine.

August 30, 2026

AI 101 · Part 5

What happens to what you type?

The chat box feels like a private notebook. It is actually a message to a company's servers — kept, sometimes learned from, occasionally read. Here is the honest journey, what actually deserves your worry, and the habits that cost nothing.

August 29, 2026

AI 101 · Part 4

When AI makes things up

Why a confident answer is not the same as a correct one: the five places AI goes wrong, why it cannot say "I don't know," and the cheap habits that catch it.

August 29, 2026

Why Ethyx isn't end-to-end encrypted

End-to-end encryption sounds like the obvious choice for a privacy-focused AI client. Here is why we chose encryption at rest instead—and what that actually protects.

August 28, 2026

AI 101 · Part 3

How to ask so you get good answers

You do not need magic words. AI fills every gap you leave with the most average assumption — so the skill is briefing: say what good looks like, hand over the real thing, and push back.

August 27, 2026

AI 101 · Part 2

What should you actually use AI for?

Not a list of thirty use cases — three ways to think about what AI is for, with real examples from our house: allergy-safe recipes, 2am worries, and things that used to need a professional or a whole weekend.

August 26, 2026

AI 101 · Part 1

What is AI, actually?

It is not a robot, not a search engine, and not a person. Here is what you are really talking to when you talk to an AI — and the one rule that keeps you safe.

July 8, 2026

What's new in Ethyx since v1.4

Fork conversations, Google sign-in, assistant context import, interactive checklists, Google Calendar write-back, chat skills, and style-as-skills—everything after compare and cognitive format.